Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine

2025-11-2220:27384mathstodon.xyz

Over at the Erdos problem website, AI assistance is now becoming routine. Here is what happened recently regarding Erdos problem #367 https://www.erdosproblems.com/367 : 1. On Nov 20, Wouter van Doorn…


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  • By NitpickLawyer 2025-11-236:42

    Having the ability to throw math heavy ML papers at the assistants and get simplified explanations / pseudocode back is absolutely amazing, as someone who's forgot most of what I learned in uni, 25+ years back and never really used it since.

  • By kregasaurusrex 2025-11-233:50

    'Vibe formalizing' is a logical extension of 'vibe engineering' implemented by 'vibe coding'. Sometimes I have trouble with getting the individual puzzle pieces of a problem to fall into place, where a hypothetical 'Move 37 As A Service' to unify informal methods with mathematical rigor deserves to be explored!

  • By RossBencina 2025-11-232:121 reply

    Also interesting that the responses include anti-Lean material.

    • By CamperBob2 2025-11-234:21

      Due to his position and general fame, Tao has to deal with a larger-than-usual number of kooks.

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